Category Manager(Toys)

**What We're Like**

At BIG W everyday’s a big day. For you, this could be the start of something big. There are over 15,000 of us, in the biggest cities and the tiniest towns. And each of us has an important role to play to help make a real difference for families by providing real value, real solutions and real care. If you have a passion for designing and delivering great customer experiences; a desire to join BIG W's journey to become a purpose led digital retailer enabled by a great store network; and if you’re looking for a place to grow your career, we could be just for you

**The Role**

The **_Category Manager - Toys _**role brings the BIG W strategy to life by creating Toy category strategies, the curation of the best range and creating value for our customers. This ambition leads to maximising sales, profit and customer satisfaction and optimised inventory. Your new role is an integral part of the Toys Team which will see you coaching, mentoring and developing team members to be forward thinking and agile in our approach to supporting our customers.

Other key responsibilities will include:

- Build the category strategy by gaining a thorough understanding of customer insights & the market to contribute to the BIG W strategy
- Lead in curating ranges, refine pricing and promotion channel plan in line with category strategy, using customer and market insights to ensure it’s aligned to BIG W strategies.
- Partner with Suppliers to build relationships and optimise value creation in category to increase sales, profit and customer advocacy
- Partner with BIGW Asia & Brand Co Team to maximise own brand offers, create new ranges and grow customer advocacy.
- Working end to end as one team across all support teams and broader Woolworths business.
- Partner with all relevant functions to plan and execute customer plan activities (Brochure, Online, Social, Sales Plan, Events Space)
- To ensure that all products ranged within the category are compliant to Australian consumer law.To ensure that all own brand and exclusive brand products are approved through the Big W QA processes prior to ranging of the product lines. To understand BIG W's New Product Development process as it relates to the products ranged within your category

**About You**

To be successful in this role and thrive in our high performing and innovative culture, you will have a balance of commercial and strategic capability. You will have collaborative ways of working to help realise BIG W’s ambition of becoming a digitally led retailer that is a customer first and team first and that lives our purpose every day.

In addition, you will have:

- Five years previous experience in a category management role, ideally with toys category management and product development.
- Team player, who is able to deliver innovative and creative solutions for customers and teams

**What's in it for you?
- An attractive remuneration package including base and super
- Opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest and best minds in Australia both across BIG W and Woolworths.
- Opportunity to join the most engaging team in the business.
- Tech options - Woolworths is the largest employer of Google Apps in Australia, are early adopters of Agile and have BYOD options too.
- An exciting career - as our business grows, so do the opportunities for our people.
- Flexibility and work-life balance policies that will help you thrive.
- Woolworths Group has announced its intention to introduce a new requirement for Australian team members to be vaccinated against COVID-19. For more information click _here